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Do you know that Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, since the eighties?


A NATION CHALLENGED: AMERICAN MUSLIMS; Islam Attracts Converts By the Thousand, Drawn Before and After Attacks
By JODI WILGOREN
Source: The New York Times : October 22, 2001, Monday
Section: National Desk
http://www.whyislam.org/discoverwhy.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/national/22CONV.html
or :
http://www.alhewar.com/


"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people..." Hillary Rodman Clinton, Los Angeles Times, May 31, 1996, p.3

"Already more than a billion-people strong, Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion." ABCNEWS, Abcnews.com

"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the country." NEWSDAY, March7,1989, p.4

"Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States..." NEW YORK TIMES, Feb 21, 1989, p.1

"Moslems are the world's fastest-growing group..." USA TODAY, The population referance bureau, Feb. 17, 1989, p.4A
"Islam is the fastest growing religion in North America." TIMES MAGAZINE

"Islam continues to grow in America, and no one can doubt that!" CNN, December 15, 1995

"The religion of Islam is growing faster than any other religion in the world." MIKE WALLACE, 60 MINUTES
 
I wonder how the Christians will react if Islamists eventually outnumber them in America?

I can only imagine how they will feel when laws start being passed based on Islamic values and morality, their politics and life become ruled by another religion, and their president praises Allah all over T.V.

Sweet cycle of time, I but wish I may live long enough to see this. Their teaching of due unto others as you would have done unto you will finally become a reality.....
 
News reports and sound bites don't carry enough evidential weight. Where are the factual studies which show evidence for Islam growing as fast as the headlines say it is?
 
Here we go again (YAWN). I accept that I may be blown up by poorly educated brain-washed idiots as I post this missive but would ask Mr. Randi (pbuh) to send the $1000000 to my widow when I return to haunt him. ;)
 
You know how many small towns make that claim?

It's simple: Start with a town with three people living there. Build a Wal*Mart and some tract housing. 10,000% growth!

The "growth" tapers off once the population reaches a certain point. Because adding the next 100 people is only 50% growth, and the next 100 is 33% growth, etc. It's usually the next year when the town next door gets a K-Mart AND a strip mall, and some more tract housing that THEY are #1 in growth.


The thing is that world-wide, the Islamic fundies are reaching out to the third world countries more directly than the U.S. Where our government channels billions of dollars and weapons to ruthless dictators, their religious institutions build schools and mosques for the people, and they gain political influence through the back door.

Simple formula.

Of course, U.S. Christians are much more interested in gaining power and influence and converting our own government into a theocracy, rather than concentrating on the spread of international Christianity to foreign lands. They're largely allergic to risks that walking into a third world country and building a school represent. Apparently martyring himself for his beliefs is something only foreigners are supposed to do. Americans would rather give their money to corporations that ensure "at least 5%" goes to the people it's intended to. Apparently, American Christians recognize that religion has always been a tool for political power, and not for anything silly, like helping the poor and downtrodden.
 
hey I thought it was the Mormons

My Mormon friends for YEARS have been claiming this honor, like missing out on the latest thing would convert me! The way they talk about it I'll be the last Episcopalian (I don't go to church, but I think I'm signed up somewhere....) in the world. And won't I just be all alone and sad then?
 
From the latest study I have found (2001), Wicca was actually the fastest growing religion by far, at least percentage wise..... Islam only accounted for around 0.5% of the U.S. population.

Of course the study is a tiny bit out of date.

In the world at large I remember reading studies that say Islam is the fastest growing, but not in the U.S.

I think the reason for this is in Middle Eastern countries they often tend to be a bit behind the rest of the world in medical technology and such. I don't imagine many of them use birth control, and they tend to have larger families from some studies I remember reading...
 
Re: hey I thought it was the Mormons

kittynh said:
My Mormon friends for YEARS have been claiming this honor, like missing out on the latest thing would convert me! The way they talk about it I'll be the last Episcopalian (I don't go to church, but I think I'm signed up somewhere....) in the world. And won't I just be all alone and sad then?
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I'm a (ex) Mormon and i'd be proud to be called your friend
"the mormon church is the fastest growing church in the world"
I know this is true because It's often repeated in priesthood lessons.
Peter
 
I wonder how the Christians will react if Islamists eventually outnumber them in America?
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I doubt they will mind, because it won't happen unless the majority of them voluntarily convert to Islam.
and their president praises Allah all over T.V.
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Doesn't he already do this? He's just using the English word for 'Allah'. And he says 'War' instead of 'Jihad', but it's pretty much the same thing.
 
Earthborn said:
Doesn't he already do this? He's just using the English word for 'Allah'. And he says 'War' instead of 'Jihad', but it's pretty much the same thing.
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Oddly enough, even though 'Yahweh' and 'Allah' are the same (they are both the god of Abraham), Christians don't see that.

Allah is the Old Testament god and Jehovah is the New.
 
Well this is not something simple it is growing up everywhere and every body should think carefully about it. Others also have been affected:

"Yusuf Islam" Former Jazz Singer "Cat Stevens" Came to Islam
Hear his story as told him . . . read more

"Cat Stevens" album cover
How I came to Islam - by Yusuf Islam
From Musician to Muslim by Allah's Will
WAMY - World Assembly of Muslim Youth
Falls Church, VA. USA

All I have to say is all what you know already, to confirm what you already know, the message of the Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) as given by God - the Religion of Truth.

[edited to remove copyrighted material -- Raja]

The article in full may be found here: http://www.islamtomorrow.net/converts/yusuf_islam.htm
 
Christ on a crutch !!!!! Are you a certified nutter Jal or just so simple that you cannot think for yourself?
 
I'm still trying to determine whether Jal is pleased by, alarmed at, or indifferent to the information he imparts in his OP.

Colour me confused.
 
Jal:

Your post of an entire article on Cat Stevens' conversion to Islam appears to be in violation of forum rules; specifically, the rule against posting entire copyrighted articles. This article is on many websites, with the added information that it is posted with the permission of WAMY, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.

If you have the permission of WAMY to post this article in its entirety here, please include that permission in your post. If not, please edit your post within 15 minutes so that it complies with the rules. You may post representative quotes and a link to the source.

Posted and sent as PM
 
Yea - this is EXACTLY what everyone needs...

"The Arabic word Islam means voluntary surrender to the will of Allah and obedience to His commands."
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Forget about free will or thinking for yourself. All you'll ever need to know is in this book called the Quran.

Let Allah worry about the big picture - you just do what you're told.


Sigh. :( :( :(

Barkhorn.
 
Who is Jal?

Does anyone else here get the sneaking feeling that Billiefan2000 just converted to Islam?
 
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